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  South Africa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
South Africa has the largest population of people of European descent in Africa, the largest Indian population in Africa, as well as the largest Coloured (of mixed European and African descent) community in Africa, making it one of the most ethnically diverse countries on the continent.
South Africa's most prevalent biome is grassland, which is particularly present on the Highveld, where the plant cover is dominated by different grasses, low shrubs, and acacia trees, mainly camel-thorn and whitethorn.
South Africa is a middle-income, developed country with an abundant supply of resources, well-developed financial, legal, communications, energy, and transport sectors, a stock exchange, JSE Securities Exchange, that ranks among the 10 largest in the world, and a modern infrastructure supporting an efficient distribution of goods to major urban centres throughout the region.
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 South Korea - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK; Korean: Daehan Minguk (Hangul: 대한 민국; Hanja: 大韓民國)), is a country in East Asia, covering the southern half of the Korean Peninsula.
The United Nations-backed South and the USSR-backed North eventually reached a stalemate and an armistice was signed in 1953, splitting the peninsula along the demilitarized zone at about the 38th parallel, which had been the original demarcation line.
South Korea's (current) capital and largest city is Seoul in the northwest, other major cities include nearby Incheon, central Daejeon, Gwangju in the southwest and Daegu and Busan in the southeast.
encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /south_korea.htm   (2035 words)

  
 The History of Apartheid in South Africa   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
South Africa (see map) is a country blessed with an abundance of natural resources including fertile farmlands and unique mineral resources.
South Africa was colonized by the English and Dutch in the seventeenth century.
With the enactment of apartheid laws in 1948, racial discrimination was institutionalized.
www-cs-students.stanford.edu /~cale/cs201/apartheid.hist.html   (737 words)

  
 National Party (South Africa) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
As the homelands were seen by the apartheid regime as embryonic independent nations, all fl South Africans were registered as citizens of the homelands, not of the nation as a whole, and were expected to exercise their political rights only in the homelands.
In a move unrecognized by the rest of the world, the former German colony of South West Africa (now Namibia), which South Africa had occupied in World War I, was effectively incorporated into South Africa as a fifth province, with seven members elected to represent it in the South African Parliament.
Another goal was achieved in 1960, when the white population voted to sever South Africa's ties with the British Monarchy and establish a republic, which led to South Africa's withdrawal from the Commonwealth.
secaucus.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/National_Party_(South_Africa)   (1248 words)

  
 SA-SIG - Southern Africa Jewish Genealogy: Youth Movements   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
South Africa was such a popular destination for these Lithuanians, or "Litvaks", that it is often described as "a colony of Lithuanian Jewry".
As immigrants poured into South Africa in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and the Jewish population rose dramatically, the Jews developed a sense of a greater community.
In South Africa, where a national South African identity was ambiguous and weak and where important gentile political figures were favorable to the Zionist concept, the Zionist movement flourished.
www.jewishgen.org /safrica/youth-movements/history/tkegel/index.htm   (19293 words)

  
 South Africa - Relations with Other Countries
South Africa and Israel had collaborated on military training, weapons development, and weapons production for years before broad sanctions were imposed in the late 1980s.
South Africa and the ROC had maintained ties during the apartheid era, partly because both were virtual outcasts from the international community.
Taiwanese investments in South Africa, for example, exceeded R1.4 billion in 1994, according to South African reports, and the ROC was then one of South Africa's six largest trading partners.
countrystudies.us /south-africa/85.htm   (1453 words)

  
 INHEA: South Africa publications
Davies, J. The university curriculum and the transition in South Africa.
Wolpe, H. The debate on university transformation in South Africa: The case of the Western Cape.
Jones, B. A critical interpretation of higher education governing policy in South Africa mediating the legacy of the past to the present for a new future.
www.bc.edu /bc_org/avp/soe/cihe/inhea/pubs_country/South_Africa.htm   (3969 words)

  
 African Orthodox Church Archives
Alexander was born in South Africa on December 23, 1882.
Formerly an Anglican priest with the Church of the Province of South Africa, Mdatyulwa left the Anglican church in 1946 because of racial discrimination.
Churches included are the Ethiopian Catholic Church of South Africa, the Church of Uganda, the National Church of Africa, the Church of the Province of South Africa, the Christian Catholic Apostolic Church in Zion and the Imperial Coptic Ethiopian Church in Ethiopia.
www.pitts.emory.edu /Archives/text/rg005.html   (6953 words)

  
 South Africa - The 1948 Election
The HNP stated that Africans should be viewed as only temporary dwellers in the cities and should be forced periodically to return to the countryside to meet the labor needs of farmers (primarily Afrikaners).
In addition, the HNP platform declared that Africans should develop political bodies in "their true fatherland," the African reserves, and should have no form of parliamentary representation in South Africa.
The HNP became the government and, renamed the National Party (NP), ruled South Africa until 1994.
www.supportfree.com /countrypages/south-africa/24.htm   (282 words)

  
 - SouthAfrica.info
Visitors to South Africa are always keen to see the country's celebrated Big Five - elephant, lion, rhinoceros, buffalo and leopard - neglecting the country's wealth of smaller wildlife.
South Africa is taking part in the Greenland Dialogue, a week-long ministerial meeting to discuss the Kyoto Protocol and climate change, hosted by the Danish Ministry of the Environment.
As he did in 2003, South African golf legend Gary Player, the captain of the International Team to contest the Presidents Cup, has opted to include a South African as one of his wildcards for the showdown against the USA.
www.safrica.info   (471 words)

  
 INDIAN PASSIVE RESISTANCE IN SOUTH AFRICA, 1946-1948
Public opinion in India was outraged at the decision of the South African government to proceed with the legislation despite repeated representations by the Indian government.
In June 1946, the Indian government sent a formal request to the United Nations that the treatment of Indians in South Africa be considered by the the General Assembly at its next session.
Naicker and Dr. Dadoo told the court on February 26, 1948, that the struggle of the Indian community was part of "the struggle of the whole Non-European and democracy-loving peoples of South Africa to turn this country into a democratic State".
www.anc.org.za /ancdocs/history/congress/passive.html   (3755 words)

  
 GANDHI AND SOUTH AFRICA
Towards the end of his life, he gave guidance and support to the Indian passive resistance movement in South Africa (1946-48), which was to inspire all the oppressed people and lead to the emergence of the great national movement of that country.
A year after he arrived in South Africa as a 23-year-old barrister, Gandhiji decided to devote himself to serving the Indian community which was subjected to discrimination and humiliation by the white rulers.
Gandhiji had dedicated himself in South Africa to serving the small Indian community which was being subjected to discriminatory and humiliating measures in breach of undertakings by the British and colonial governments, in violation of acquired rights and in disregard of professions of British Imperial policy.
www.anc.org.za /ancdocs/history/people/gandhi/gandhisa.html   (5499 words)

  
 Letter to CONSULTUS: "Towards Truth: The GCB's submission to the TRC"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
These two examples show that the so-called "apartheid" government were not introducing new political or social principles in South Africa, but were operating on the foundations that had been laid by former governments and had been recognised for generations.
The South Africa Act 1909, formulated by the Union Convention and sanctioned by the British Parliament, restricted membership of the South African Parliament to "British subjects of European descent", a flagrant and most far-reaching "apartheid" measure, to which Mr Gauntlett strangely does not refer in his catalogue of the "keystones in the house of apartheid".
And in 1977 the Vorster government turned its back on the 1961 constitution of the Republic of South Africa and proposed a racially mixed government for the country in the form of a Council of Cabinets of Whites, Coloureds and Indians.
www.hnp.org.za /English/Consltus/Conslts.htm   (3273 words)

  
 Actuarial Society of South Africa
The first fully qualified actuary in South Africa of whom there is record was James McGowan, BA, FIA, who became Cape Government Actuary of the former Cape Colony in 1890.
The Actuaries' Club of South Africa, comprising 26 members, was established in Cape Town in 1937.
In 1948, the Club evolved into the Actuarial Society of South Africa, an event which may be regarded as the profession's coming of age in South Africa.
www.assa.org.za   (171 words)

  
 WHKMLA : History of South Africa, ToC
Chronology of Catholic Dioceses : South Africa, from Kirken i Norge
South Africa, from Land Forces of Britain, the Empire and Commonwealth
M.S. Geen, The Making of the Union of South Africa, a brief history 1487-1939, London : Longmans 1946 [G] Krüger, The Age of the Generals, A Short Political History of the Union of South Africa 1910-1948, n.pl. : Dagbreek 1958 [G] Eric Rosenthal, Die Verbygande Jare.
www.zum.de /whkmla/region/southafrica/xsafrica.html   (483 words)

  
 SOUTH AFRICA 1948-1976   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
It was also recognized that the English group in South Africa were still strong and quite anti-Afrikaans.
He took some steps towards preparing South Africa for republic status, such as the South African Citizenship Act of 1949.
In 1953 Malan made Elizabeth II the Queen of South Africa rather than Queen of Britain and South Africa.
www.sahistory.org.za /pages/specialprojects/1948-1976/df-malan.htm   (319 words)

  
 WHKMLA : History of the Union of South Africa, 1948-1961   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
In 1948, DANIEL F. MALAN, leader of the NATIONAL PARTY, was Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa; under him the APARTHEID REGIME began.
In the post-war years, South Africa saw an increase in European immigration.
Internationally, South Africa was respected by the west for it's staunch anti-communist stand.
www.zum.de /whkmla/region/southafrica/usa194861.html   (167 words)

  
 South Africa : Country Studies - Federal Research Division, Library of Congress
South Africa : Country Studies - Federal Research Division, Library of Congress
Formation of the Union of South Africa, 1910
Steve Biko and the South African Students' Organisation
lcweb2.loc.gov /frd/cs/zatoc.html   (92 words)

  
 Brian Dollery - UNE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Dollery, B.E. "Nonmarket Failure and Apartheid Labour Regulation in South Africa", in T.O. Nitsch, J.M. Phillips, and E.L. Fitzsimmons (ed.), On the Condition of Labor and the Social Question One Hundred Years Later, Queenston, Edward Mellen Press, 309-321, 1994.
In 1978 I took up a temporary position at Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa and held this job in a tenured capacity until 1987.
I secured a Hobart Houghton Research Fellowship in the Department of Economics at Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa, and spent a month researching at that institution in early 2003.
www.une.edu.au /febl/Staff/bdollery.htm   (7652 words)

  
 From its inception in 1948, South Africa was an Apartheid Government.
From its inception in 1948, South Africa was an Apartheid Government.
Coursework and Essays: By Subject: Physics: From its inception in 1948, South Africa was an Apartheid Government
Below is a short sample of the essay "From its inception in 1948, South Africa was an Apartheid Government.".
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 Amazon.co.uk: Books: Core Texts for GCSE: South Africa Since 1948 - A Study in Depth (Discovering the Past for GCSE S.)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
An examination of South Africa between 1948 and 1995.
It is designed for students studying South Africa as part of a Schools History Project syllabus or a modern history syllabus with any of the GCSE boards, at S Grade, or for IGCSE.
The book combines: narrative providing comprehensive explanation of the core content; structured tasks which build conceptual understanding of the dilemmas facing South Africa through this period, and the reasons for their different responses; and source investigations which tackle major issues of historical interpretation and develop students' source handling and interpretative skills.
www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0719574765/techbooksinterne   (371 words)

  
 Why did the National party in South Africa put forward the policy of apartheid in the 1948 general election campaign?
Why did the National party in South Africa put forward the policy of apartheid in the 1948 general election campaign?
Coursework and Essays: By Subject: History: Why did the National party in South Africa put forward the policy of apartheid in the 1948 general election campaign
Below is a short sample of the essay "Why did the National party in South Africa put forward the policy of apartheid in the 1948 general election campaign?".
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 131-072 South Africa Under Apartheid: 1948-1994
A study of South African history 1948-1994, focusing primarily on the rise and fall of the apartheid society in this period.
On completion of this subject, students should have gained a sound understanding of the rise and fall of apartheid in South Africa.
A research essay of 2500 words 55% (due during the semester), a reflective essay of 1500 words 35% (due at the end of semester) and tutorial attendance and class participation throughout the semester 10%.
www.unimelb.edu.au /HB/subjects/131-072.html   (211 words)

  
 Apartheid - College Library Undergraduate Research Guide
Apartheid is an Afrikaans word meaning "apartness." It refers to South Africa's doctrine and practice of racial segregation which began after elections in 1948 and continued until 1994.
The African National Congress was formed in 1912 to unite the peoples of Africa and to work towards substantive reform of existing political, economic, and social structures.
The Congress is probably best known for its work in South Africa, where they were the leading impetus behind the negotiation of a democratic constitution for the nation in 1996.
college.library.wisc.edu /resources/subject_guides/apartheid.htm   (620 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: List of state leaders in 1951   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Monarch - George VI, King of South Africa (1936-1952)
Ernest George Jansen, Governor-General of South Africa (1951-1959)
Prime Minister - Daniel François Malan, Prime Minister of South Africa (1948-1954)
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/List-of-state-leaders-in-1951   (600 words)

  
 South Africa 1948—1994 - Cambridge University Press   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Rosemary Mulholland's new book focuses on the struggle by the fl majority for political and social freedom in South Africa.
It then concentrates on the history of South Africa following the establishment of the apartheid regime.
Topics include apartheid in practice, the emergence of protest movements, the Sharpeville massacre, the growing pressures for change, the end of apartheid and Nelson Mandela’s appointment as president.
www.cambridge.org /catalogue/print.asp?isbn=0521576784&print=y   (190 words)

  
 FREE In-depth report - The 1948 Election - South Africa
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A good starting point for researching South Africa for travel or reference.
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 National Party (South Africa) - Enpsychlopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The Hertzog government worked to undermine the Coloured (mixed race) vote by granting, in 1930, voting rights to white women, but not to Coloured women, effectively halving the voting power of the Coloured electorate.
In 1934, Hertzog agreed to merge his National Party with the rival South African Party of Jan Smuts to form the United Party.
In 1951, the Bantu Self-Government Act established so-called "Homelands" (derisively known to the rest of the world as Bantustans) for ten different African tribes.
www.grohol.com /wiki/National_Party_(South_Africa)   (1264 words)

  
 SOUTH AFRICA 1948-1976   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The formation of a Republic had been the dream of many Afrikaners since the nineteenth century, and was not something that was thought about only after National Party (NP) victory in 1948.
This however was short-lived, and by 1902 at the end of the Anglo-Boer or South African War, the Afrikaners had once again lost their republics and were again brought under British rule.
From this time, until the formation of the Republic of South Africa in 1961, the forming of a republic was an issue in the minds of many Afrikaners.
sahistory.org.za /pages/specialprojects/1948-1976/afrikaner-ideal.htm   (146 words)

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